Annie Gowen

Washington, D.C.

National correspondent Education: University of Kansas, bachelor's in English, BS in journalism

Annie Gowen is a correspondent on the National desk of The Washington Post. She was previously India bureau chief from 2013-2018.
Before going to India, she was a member of The Post's social issues team covering wealth and inequality. She has reported from conflict zones in Ukraine and Iraq, where she spent the summer of 2011 examining the continued violence and ramifications of the U.S. troop withdrawal.
In 2007, she profiled several victims of the shootings at Virginia Tech, contributing to the Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of that tragedy.
She is a graduate of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas and lives in the D.C. area.